Quote by Irwin Shaw

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel.

Summary

In this quote, the speaker expresses their disdain for being labeled as a master of the popular novel. They find the concept of an "unpopular novel" somewhat ironic or puzzling. The quote challenges the notion that novels can be categorized solely into popular and unpopular categories, suggesting that popularity may not be the true measure of a book's worth or impact. It raises questions about the complexities of literary judgments and serves as a critique of oversimplifying and undervaluing works that may not fit within traditional definitions of popularity.

Topics

Authors & Writing

By Irwin Shaw

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

Friendship

The people will save their government, if the government its

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln

Government

The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberti

The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.

Anon., U. S. Privacy Study Commi

Privacy

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capt

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne

Teaching

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness Hope Change

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a bett

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Faye Wattleton.

Commitment

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones....

Chinese Proverb

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Johann von Goethe

Senses

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Future

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Romantic

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

Thinking

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Kindness